111b. Scamozzi, Vincenzo.
THE / Mirror of Architecture: / OR THE / Ground Rules of the / Art
of Building. / Exactly laid down by / VINCENT SCAMOZZI, / Master-Builder
of /
VENICE. / Whereby the principal Points of
Architecture
are easily and plainly / demonstrated for the Benefit of all Lovers
and Ingenious Practi-/tioners in the said Art. / With the Description
and Use of a
Joint-Rule, fitted with Lines for / the ready finding the
Lengths and
Angles of
Rafters, and
Hips, and /
Collar-Beams, in any
Square or Bevelling
Roofs at any pitch; and the ready drawing the
Architrave,
Frize, and
Cornice in any Order. / With other useful Conclusions
by the said Rule. By
John Brown. / The SEVENTH EDITION. /
Whereunto is Added,
A Compendium of the Art of Building. Giving / a
Brief Account of the Names, Natures, and Rates of all the Ma-/terials,
belonging to the Erection, of an Edifice: And what Quan-/tity of each
sort will be needful for the Building of any House. / Whereby Estimates,
Valuations and Contracts may be made be-/tween Builder and Workman,
without Damage to either. And / how to measure the Works of the
several Artificers belonging / to Building; and what Methods and Customs
are observ'd therein. / By
WILLIAM LEYBUBN [sic]. /
LONDON.
/ Printed for
B. Sprit, 1734.
Small 4to. Engraved portrait (1 leaf); title page (1 leaf); note (1 leaf);
engraved plate and description (1 leaf); text of The Mirror of Architecture,
with 51 engraved plates, of which 3 are folding, inserted (1-56);
half title ([57]); text of Compendium, with 1 engraved plate inserted
(58-[112]).
For information about Scamozzi, see No. 111a. Sir Henry Wotton
(1568-1639), who wrote the Compendium of the Art of Building, was
an English diplomat and poet. The curious spelling "Leybubn" on the
title page is a misprint for Leybourn. William Leybourn (1626-1700?)
was a mathematician.
The note for this book says:
There having been many Masters who have with great Care and Industry
brought this Art to a great Perfection, among whom the Famous Master
Vincent Scamozzi, Chief Builder of the Magnificent City of Venice, deserves
to be plac'd in the First and Chiefest Rank by the consent of all Judicious
Artists. Therefore for the benefit of our own Nation, and that it may be made
most useful for all Artificers in Building, and Lovers and Practitioners in this
most useful Art, and for the greater Splendor and Glory of Princes Courts,
Gentlemens Seats, and whole Cities, especially the most Famous City of
London, you have the larger book reduc'd into a smaller Volume, and the
Author has given Parts [see Plate CXIX], divided into Minutes; whereby the
Principal Rules of Architecture are made plain to ordinary Capacities, by
Joachim Schuym, an Ingenious Artist.
Kimball (p. 99) says this work may have entered Jefferson's library
about 1778, and may have come from the sale of William Byrd's
library. It should be noted that this is the seventh edition. Jefferson sold
his copy to Congress.
The book was not ordered for the University by Jefferson. The library's
present copy, the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation,
bears the bookplate of John Adam.
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